Improvement in vegetable-cutters



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Vegetahla-Gutten No, 163,765, Patented May 25,1875.

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THE GRAPHIC COJHOTOPLITHJB k4] PARK PLACE, N-Y.

UNITED STATES PATENT Orrro.

JOHN N. GOOLSBEE, OF WOODVILLE, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-THIRDS HIS RIGHTTO J. W. STEWART AND J. K. DURHAM, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN VEGETABLE-CUTTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 163,765, dated May 25,1875; application filed April 13, 1875.

To all whom z'tmay concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN N. GOOLSBEE, of Woodville, in the county ofTyler and State of Texas, have invented a certain Improvement inVegetable-Gutters, of which the following is a specification:

This invention relates to that species of the class of vegetable-cuttersadapted to out a number of slices by a single stroke, in which a seriesof knives, arranged in two converging tiers, are used -in conjunctionwith a centrally-disposed block for supporting the article to be sliced.

My improvement-intended to so construct the implement that the kniveswill operate with a shear-cut-consists in attaching the knives to aswinging frame or handle, and disposing them more and more obliquelyfrom the lowest pair, which, where the fulcrum is located as in' theexample illustrated, may stand at right angles to thesupporting-standards to the uppermost knife, so that all will have alike shear-cut during their passage through the vegetable or'fruit.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improvedvegetable-cutter. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of a portion of thesame. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are detail views hereinafter more particularlyreferred to.

The same letters of reference are used in all the figures in thedesignation of identical parts.

The knives O are carried on standards B and B of the handle or swingingframe B, which is pivoted ata, to an upright on one end of the base A.

The knives are disposed in the manner of steps, in two t1ers convergingtoward the uppermost blade.

There is a considerable space vertically between the back of one bladeand the cuttingedge of the next in series, so that the slice severed bythe upper knife will not be forced against the side of the knife nextbelow it,

which would be the case were the knives arranged side by side.

It is obvious that knives arranged accord ing to my method operate withvery much less friction on this account.

The knives operate with a shear-cut-the lower ones, which are, in thisinstance, arranged at right angles to their standard, naturally so, onaccount of the oblique position they assume when the cutter-frame islifted above the vegetable subsequently placed on the block D, and theothers by reason of their oblique arrangement between the standards,their obliquityincreasin g from the lower to the upper ones, as clearlyshown in Fig. 1. By this gradually increasing obliquity of the knivesthey will severally operate with an an equal shear-cut.

The standard B is fixed between the side bars of swinging frame B, butthe standard B being secured by a screw-rod, b and nut 1) tea block, b,on said side bars, is movable between them, admitting of the stretchingof the knives. These are merely hooked upon pins 1) on the standards, asclearly shown in Fig. 3.

The vegetable or fruit to be sliced is put onto spurs or pins (1 on ablock, D, which is firmly secured to the base in a position to cause theknives to pass down on either side of it on their descent. This block ismade so high that the uppermost or apex knife will strike it before thedescent of the frame is arrested.

It may be of the tapering form shown in Fig. 4, or of the straight andslitted form shown in Fig. 5.

The swinging frame is operated by the handpiece B or in any othersuitable manner. The lower surface of block b is corrugated, and acts inconjunction with a similarly-corrugated block, a, on the base A as aponnder, by means of which beef can be conveniently pounded.

The corresponding knives of the tiers should be arranged at the sameheights on the standards, so that they will act at the same time on thearticle to be sliced on opposite sides of the block D and thus hold itsteady thereon while the slicing proceeds.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The herein -described vegetable-cutter in which the knives 0, arrangedin two converging tiers, are attached to a swinging frame or handle atvarying angles to operate with an even shear-cut, substantially asspecified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN N. GOOLSBEE.

Witnesses:

D. P. HOLLOWAY, A. RUPPERT.

